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Head of Corporate and Securities

About Skillz:

Skillz is the leading mobile games platform connecting players in fair, fun, and meaningful competition.

The gaming industry is larger than movies, music, and books, with more than 2.7 billion gamers playing monthly and 10 million developers worldwide. Mobile is the fastest-growing segment of the gaming market, expected to increase from $68 billion in 2019 to $150 billion in 2025.

As the first publicly-traded mobile esports platform, Skillz has pioneered the future of the gaming industry. The Skillz platform helps developers build multi-million dollar franchises by enabling social competition in their games. Leveraging its patented technology, Skillz hosts billions of casual esports tournaments for millions of mobile players worldwide, and distributes millions in prizes each month.

Through its philanthropic initiatives, Skillz has harnessed the power of its platform to transform the way nonprofits engage with donors, enabling anyone with a mobile device to support causes such as the American Red Cross, Susan G. Komen, American Cancer Society, and NAACP by playing in Skillz tournaments.

Skillz has also earned recognition as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, a two-time winner of CNBC’s Disruptor 50, one of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000.

What We’re Looking For:

This Counsel position will be an integral part of a lean legal team that advises and supports Skillz as a new public company. In this role you will provide advice regarding proper corporate governance, prepare the company’s SEC filings and public disclosure documents; play a key role in the company’s annual/quarterly earnings announcements; lead compliance with NYSE listing rules; support our annual meeting of stockholders; support and advise the company’s Investor Relations and Communications teams; and monitor and analyze regulatory developments and implement changes as appropriate. In this Counsel position you will work with our senior executives and Board report to the Vice President of Legal.

What You Will Do :

• Draft, review, advise on and submit SEC filings
• Advise on compliance with NYSE listing standards and handle NYSE submissions
• Support our public company secretarial function, including assisting with the preparation for board and committee meetings and the planning of our annual meeting of stockholders
• Assist with capital market transactions
• Work closely with our Investor Relations team regarding public company communications, including press releases, investor presentations, earnings announcements and other disclosures
• Work closely with Skillz’s stock administration team on equity administration and assist with administering our Insider Trading Policy, 10b5-1 plans and related employee and director equity matters, including our employee stock purchase and repurchase programs
• Provide advice regarding our compliance with the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, Regulation FD and Sarbanes-Oxley

Your Skillz:

• J.D. degree from an accredited law school
• 6+ years experience and proven success advising public-company clients at a major law firm and/or in an in-house position with a publicly-traded company
• Desire to develop knowledge of Skillz’s business in order to provide specific advice that balances legal obligations and business goals
• Collaborative and hard-working team member who thrives in a dynamic and fast-moving environment

Skillz embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As part of our commitment to diversifying our workforce, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or disability status, and we operate in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance .